Fired up another box on that network and the site works fine via the reverse proxy if the backend webserver is up, but as soon as it goes down the proxy reports the same message it did when doing it from the proxy server. Cache is up to 700kb which is bit better. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Morgan Storey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > so if I load www.site.com on the squid server with a proxy set in > internet explorer of 127.0.0.1:80 I can get the site and browse > around, if I down the web server after and try the site after a long > time I get an error "Connection to myAccel Failed ". I can't hit these > test servers outside the lab as they are walled off, I can create > another test computer in that network that I can use to test it > external to the proxy server. > I can see files in the cache folder, though on checking there is only > one file "00000000" 9kb in size and the swap.state file. Permissions > appear fine on the cache folder with system granted full access. > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:37:57 +1100, Morgan Storey wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Amos I tried your suggestions, still no good when the webserver >>> is offline. I get only a single line in the cache.log "2011/03/22 >>> 10:28:50| TCP connection to myAccel (10.0.0.18:80) failed" >>> I have put the squid.conf in the email to make corrections easier (I >>> have tried that offline mode on but it doesn't seem to work); >> >> Well, then what is the exact URLs you are testing with and how are you >> testing? >> >> Amos >> >> >